Author: ian Date: 2006-01-03 13:31:58 +0000 (Tue, 03 Jan 2006) New Revision: 7734
Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php Log: Add news item about darknet talk Modified: trunk/website/pages/news.php =================================================================== --- trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-01-03 13:13:27 UTC (rev 7733) +++ trunk/website/pages/news.php 2006-01-03 13:31:58 UTC (rev 7734) @@ -12,43 +12,8 @@ our <a href="/index.php?page=donate">donations page</a>. <h3>News</h3> -<b>5th December, 2005: Major new version of Freenet in progress (updated)</b><br> -<p>Freenet is currently undergoing a major re-write incorporating a number of fundamental changes. -Version 0.7 of Freenet aims to (in addition to supporting traditional "opennet" operation, whereby -users can quickly and easily get onto the network by downloading seednodes files from a central -source), create a scalable darknet, where users only connect directly to other users they know and -(at least marginally) trust. The purpose of this change is to protect users who may be placed -at risk simply by using the software, irrespective of what they are using it for. In the new -model, only people you choose to connect to will know that you are running the software. </p> - -<p>Previous darknets, such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE";>WASTE</a>, have been -limited to relatively small disconnected networks. The core innovation in Freenet 0.7 will be -to allow a globally scalable darknet, capable of supporting millions of users. This is made -possible by the fact that human relationships tend to form -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-world_network";>small-world networks</a>, a -property that can be exploited to find short paths between any two people. The work is based on -a talk given at <a href="http://defcon.org/";>DEFCON 13</a> by Ian Clarke and -Oskar Sandberg (<a href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/vegas1_dc.pdf";>slides available here</a>). -</p> -<p>Other modifications include switching from TCP to UDP, which allows -<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDP_hole_punching";>UDP hole punching</a> along with faster -transmission of messages between peers in the network. Anonymous message broadcast ("publish/subscribe"), -and other new basic functions, have been postponed to 0.8 in order to get 0.7 out as soon as possible; -Freenet 0.7 will support insertion and retrieval of information, as 0.5 does, but it should do it faster, -and more securely. It will not include "premix routing" (a difficult technique to provide an extremely -high level of anonymity to requesters and posters which we will introduce in 0.8 or 0.9), but we will -endeavour to ensure that 0.7 is more secure than 0.5 in every respect. Thanks to the new transport layer, -and darknet support, we expect that Freenet 0.7 will be usable in countries with national firewalls -(China blocked the current version some time ago - both the web site and the protocol). -</p> -<p>Currently, we have insert and retrieval of arbitrarily large files ("redundant splitfiles") working, -and a text mode interface. We should have an alpha which has initial FCP and Fproxy support by the end of -January. Darknet routing is working, but not yet opennet, and there are issues to address with load -balancing, but our new model (based on Ethernet and TCP/IP) is currently being debugged and should work as -it is based on tried and tested solutions. If you want to help, join #freenet on irc.freenode.net, -or contact <a href="mailto:toad at amphibian.dyndns.org">Toad (Matthew Toseland)</a>. -</p> -<p>Using donations through this website, the project has been able to employ one developer full-time, -Matthew Toseland. Matthew has since become the backbone of the Freenet development effort. The -project is always in need of additional funds to assure Matthew's continued employment, so if you -can contribute to our efforts, please visit our <a href="/index.php?page=donate">donations</a> page.</p> +<b>3rd January, 2006: Slides and Demo from Chaos Congress talk now online</b><br> +On Friday 30th Oskar Sandberg and I <a href="http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005/fahrplan/events/492.en.html";>spoke</a> +at the 22nd Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, Germany. Now that I have thawed out +(it was -6°C!), I have had a chance to upload our <a href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-slideshow.pdf.bz2";>slideshow</a> (pdf.bz2 format), and a Java <a href="http://freenetproject.org/papers/ccc/ccc-freenet-demo.tar.bz2";>demo</a> +(requires Java 1.5).
